Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Cottage.

Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle

WRENN ID
veiled-pewter-weasel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wealden
Constituency
East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 December 1982
Type
Cottage
Address
Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle, 147, High Street, Uckfield
OS grid reference
TQ 474 217
Coordinates
50.97656, 0.09939
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Butt's Cottage, also known as Cobweb Castle, is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of Uckfield High Street. It stands two storeys high with an attic and features three windows and two dormers. The exterior is stuccoed and includes a dentilled eaves cornice and a tiled roof, with intact glazing bars. The building has a pair of doorways adorned with fluted Doric columns, a joint entablature that includes a triglyph frieze, segmental fanlights, and six-panel doors. Additionally, there is one window bay added at the south end, which has a slate roof.

Local climate

Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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